12: Mindful Return: Smoothly Re-entering the Workforce After Parental Leave with Lori Mihalich-Levin

Today, our guest is a multi-talented author and attorney, Lori Mihalich-Levin. Lori also has a very active blog and website platform, called Mindful Return, for parents who are returning to the workforce after having children. If you are returning back to work after maternity/paternity leave, Lori created a four-week program to help. Now, employers are also using this program to help!

About Lori Mihalich-Levin, JD: Lori believes in empowering new working parents.  She is the founder of Mindful Return, author of Back to Work After Baby: How to Plan and Navigate a Mindful Return from Maternity Leave, and creator of the Mindful Return Maternity Leave E-Course.  She is mama to two beautiful red-headed boys (ages 5 and 7), is a contributing author at Well Rounded NY and Fairygodboss, is the Maternity Leave Expert at Motherly, and is a partner in the health care practice at Dentons US LLP.

 

Show Highlights:

• Three major hats Lori wears: Being a partner at a law firm, being a mom & running her program
• How Mindful Return was born
• Creating that supportive parent community at your workplace is a universal challenge
• Tools and community for helping return to work after maternity/paternity leave
• The four-week course to guide parents
• Alumni group joining the Facebook group for support
• Retreats coming soon
• Employers are now offering this program as a retention tool 
• Relating to one another, and how universal these problems really are
• Growing trends on dads taking paternity leave
• Lori’s own parenting story of going back to work
• Transitioning back to work is not a one-day thing; it is ongoing
• Books Lori recommends for this transition besides her own book
• Technology that helps going back to work

Resources:

Mindful Return Website

Mindful Return Facebook

Mindful Return Twitter

Book “Back to work after Baby” Available on Amazon